Vinegar Hill
A Contemporary, Fiction book. If we just had some time to ourselves, we could talk to each other the way we...
In a stark, troubling, yet ultimately triumphant celebration of self-determination, award-winning author A. Manette Ansay re-creates a stifling world of guilty and pain, and the tormented souls who inhabit it. It is 1972 when circumstance carries Ellen Grier and her family back to Holly's Field, Wisconsin. Dutifully accompanying her newly unemployed husband, Ellen has brought her two children into the home of her in-laws on Vinegar Hill -- a loveless house suffused with the settling dust of bitterness and routine -- where calculated cruelty is a way of life preserved and perpetuated in the service of a rigid, exacting and angry God. Behind a...
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 272 pages
- ISBN: 9780060897840 / 60897848
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If we just had some time to ourselves, we could talk to each other the way we used to. Maybe about nothing in particular at first, but even that would be a start. A. Manette Ansay, Vinegar Hill It is a lonely thing, remembering for someone else. A. Manette Ansay, Vinegar Hill
This is a bitter and depressing story about a woman who has to live with her furious and acrid in-laws and finds herself further estranged from her husband. She has two children whom she fights to raise well, but cannot in face of such utter hatred. The story itself was absorbing (I read it in one sitting in three hours from 11 pm to... Grief upon grief upon grief. How much abuse and grief can a person take? Seems like Oprah really likes books where women are abused in every way imaginable. For anyone that has lived with men of, or in, this generation the story rings true. 1972 may be the last year of the monster male, at least for Ellen. For those of us raised in... This book is definitely not for everyone. It is stark and depressing. The characters are not likable. I would only read bits at a time, which is why it took me so long to finish it. However, it still resonated with me. For those who have grown up in a dysfunctional family, have been in a dysfunctional marriage, or have had negative...
